Quickened Conscience in a Dog.
A correspondent of the London Spectator tells the following dog story: "A young fox-terrier about eight months old took a great fancy to a small brush, of Indian workmanship, lying on the drawing-room table. It had been punished more than once for jumping on the table and taking it. On one occasion the little dog was left alone in the room accidentally. On my return it jumped to greet me as usual, and I said: 'Have you been a good little dog while you have been left alone?' Immediately it slunk off into an adjoining room and brought back the little brush in its mouth from where it had hidden it. I was much struck with what appeared to me to be a remarkable instance of a dog possessing a conscience, and a few months afterward, finding it again alone in the room, I asked the same question, while patting it. At once I saw it had been up to some mischief, for with the same look of shame it walked slowly to one of the windows, where it lay down, with its nose pointing to a letter bitten and torn into shreds. On a third occasion, it showed me where it had strewn a number of little tickets about the floor, for doing which it had been reproved previously. I cannot account for these facts, except by supposing the dog must have a conscience."